Live Play Data

Savage Beating

· Instant · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1108

Decks Running

432

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

54%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=119

12%

62%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 20% (14 / 119 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

1108 brought · 401 players

Brought to game

1108

Ever drawn

221

Reached battlefield

119

Still on board at game end

≥ +13.2pp

Players who cast this card win 50% of the time (n=118) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=796).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 17% (n=96).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap +22.0pp; 95% confidence interval +13.2pp to +30.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

245 instances

7.8%

Library

11.4%

Battlefield

39.2%

Graveyard

9.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 54 decks
2 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers 43 decks
3 Magar of the Magic Strings 29 decks
4 Cosmic Spider-Man 23 decks
5 Tovolar, Dire Overlord // Tovolar, the Midnight Scourge 16 decks
6 Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector 15 decks
7 Gandalf, Party Guest 15 decks
8 Kratos, Stoic Father 14 decks
9 Etali, Primal Storm 8 decks
10 Riku of Many Paths 8 decks

Card text

Savage Beating

Instant

Cast this spell only during combat on your turn. Choose one — • Creatures you control gain double strike until end of turn. • Untap all creatures you control. After this phase, there is an additional combat phase. Entwine {1}

(Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Commander Masters (CMM) · Mythic · Illustrated by Matt Thompson

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.